Obvious

For my first obvious photograph I stumbled upon this rubber band in Prospect park on a walk with my friends and our dogs. What made this stick out to me was this was the only piece of trash on a stare case and my dog tried to pick it up to eat. As I snapped this image it occurred to me “how did this get here?” This was on a hiking trail and I’m not so sure what use of a rubber band is needed for hiking. The overlapping circles of the rubber band form geometric shapes and the way the lighting hits from the right forms deep shadows on the left. The way the band curls tells me to believe this band wasn’t just placed there but has been dropped and stepped on to develop the overlapping. The figure to ground relationship is “obvious,” because the ground, being the stares takes up majority of the image and the distinctive rubberband gives that about a 30/70 ratio.

In my second “obvious” photograph I captured this piece of scrap metal on a sidewalk. I wanted to photograph this because the metal reflected the sun and I noticed it form a far. This object is something I assume was left over from construction. I would consider this objects shape to be geometric due to the sharp angles and straight lines.

In my third “obvious” image I photograph these white plastic bottle caps on a dirt floor. The deep contrast of the white caps against the dark soil draws the viewers eyes to the highlighted figure of the caps. I imagine these caps got there by somebody who littered them emptying their car out as they were on a family road trip. I see each cap belonging to a bottle of a kid and the parent taking them from them so they didn’t choke on them. The caps are an organic circular shape.

Ambiguous